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Why It Doesn’t Have To Be Difficult To Make Money Online
Posted by IMer | Posted in Internet Marketing | Posted on 09-05-2009
Making money on the internet can be made very simple for anyone.
Here’s what making money as an internet marketer should boil down to: Making sales from products bought by people to whom you sent an email.
Why is it that so many aspiring marketers are failing with their internet businesses and websites?
There are several reasons for this and all of them are simple marketing methods every online business person should be doing.
One major reason for many online businesses failing is the manner in which the sites are being designed. Newbies and amateur copywriters don’t get very good conversions with the traffic that is hitting their sites.These site owners are attempting to elicit direct sales from product recommendations, banners displayed, and reviews.
First of all, the banners are taking up precious space on your web page that could be put to better use. Besides, most people have become banner-blind by now.
Secondly, by changing the ads on your sites every so often you can fight this banner blindness. You can also test to see what is getting more clicks or converting better.
Another reason for a lot of failed websites is the lack of a name capture mechanism used for list building purposes.If your sites are getting traffic but people are banner blind, don’t you think that you should be building your list? instead you are just hoping to make sales from the same old banner?
You can and will make money from your website traffic if you use it to build you list and make sales at the same time. You can do both, but your highest converting offers won’t come from first-time visitors who come to your site and see some banners.
E-mails that you send to the subscriber list that you built will result in your highest traffic conversions.The prospects on your list who take your product emails and product recommendations seriously will trust you. They are more likely to buy from your recommendation than a first-time visitor whose trust you haven’t earned yet.
I have seen this time and time again when some people on marketing forums tell me that their product isn’t selling for them and many of them had yet to make one sale on it.
I would take a look at their sale spage and see that it’s not that good then ask them how they’re promoting their product and they’ll invariably tell me that they use traffic exchanges and forum links to promote their sites.
So I encourage these people to create a simple squeeze page and a newsletter with 7 – 8 emails. These should emphasize the value of obtaining the product, and that the sales always start coming in once they divert their attention to list building instead of direct sales.
If you’re not building a list, that is one of the biggest internet marketing mistakes you could be making and I suggest that you change your focus a little to see how powerful this change in attitude will be for you.
When you see how well this works, you should work to automate you list building so that you can have your very own automated profit system.
Daniel Mcgonagle’s automated list building system generates 15-20 optins a day from just 3 of his websites
